German design 1949-1989 : two countries, one history / editors, Erika Pinner, Klára Němečková ; translations, Herwig Engelmann [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinner, Erika, editor.

Nemečkova, Klara, editor.

Engelmann, Herwig, translator.

Vitra Design Museum, host institution.

Kunstgewerbemuseum (Dresden, Germany), host institution.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Design--Germany--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Design.

History.

Germany.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum ; Dresden : Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ; Ludwigsburg : Wüstenrot Stiftung, [2021]

Summary:

The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 - 1989: Two Countries, One History does away with such cliches. More than 30 years after German reunification, it presents a comprehensive overview of German design history of the post-war period for the first time ever. With over 300 illustrations and numerous examples from the fields of design-fashion, furniture, graphics, automobile, industrial, and interiors - the book shows how design featured in daily life on both sides of the Wall, the important part it played in the reconstruction process and how it served as a propaganda tool during the Cold War. While the book highlights the different realities of East and West, the many cross references that connected design in both are also examined. It impressively illustrates the many facets of German design history in the post-war period: from the domestic sphere to global politics, from industrial products to design's role as a tool of protest that foreshadowed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With contributions by Paul Betts, Greg Castillo, Petra Eisele, Siegfried Gronert, Jana Scholze, Katharina Pfutzner, Eli Rubin, Katrin Schreiter, Oliver Sukrow, Carsten Wolff, among others; interviews with Prem Krishnamurthy, Renate Muller and Dieter Rams. Exhibition: Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (20.03.2021 - 05.09.2021) / Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany (15.10.2021 - 20.02.2022).

Contents:

Prologue. Two countries, one history? Design encounters East and West / Erika Pinner and Klára Němečková

Delayed history: a call for complicated narratives / Jana Scholze

Selected works

1949-1960. Chronicle

Design schools and the legacy of Modernism up to the late 1960s / Siegfried Gronert

Furnishing a future: German model home interiors, 1949-60 / Greg Castillo

Case study: the "School of Good Taste," the Werkbund after 1950 / Mea Hoffmann

Case study: the Deutsche Werkstätten in divided Germany / Klára Němečková

Case study: Wilhelm Wagenfeld and design continuity / Paul Betts

Interview: Prem Krishnamurthy in conversation with Erika Pinner

Photo series: the Berlin Wall

1961-1972. Chronicle

Plastics, design, and socialism in East Germany / Eli Rubin

"One Germany or two; we aren't politicians": the struggle for peaceful coexistence in German design's East-West encounters / Katrin Schreiter

Case study: Josep Renau's mural "Die Bezhiehung des Menschen zu Natur und Technik" / Oliver Sukrow

Case study: Performance, form, quality: HELIRADIO / Fine Kugler

Case study: the coolly calculated ecstasy of colour. Willy Fleckhaus: Edition Suhrkamp / Carsten Wolff

Interview: Dieter Rams in conversation with Mateo Kries

1973-1989. Chronicle

Flight from industry: designers in the GDR Resist / Katharina Pfützner

Alternative design and design alternatives: developments and discourses in West German design of the 1970s and 1980s / Petra Eisele

Case study: "a new car is catching on": the new VW Golf / Isabelle Schorer

Case study: material alternatives and spaces for possibility: the fashion designer Augusta Pohle / Kerstin Stöver

Case study: rapprochement and mutual recognition: design shows in East Berlin, Leipzig, and Stuttgart / Klára Němečková

Interview: Renate Müller in conversation with Thomas A. Geisler -

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, March 20-September 5, 2021 ; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany, October 15, 2021-February 20, 2022.

"With works by: Otl Aicher, Helmut Bätzner, Hans Theo Baumann, Günter Beltzig, Max Bill, Doris Casse-Schlüter, Luigi Colani, Egon Eiermann, Willy fleckhaus, Hans Gugelot, Margret Hildebrand, Herbert Hirche, Heinrich Löffelhardt, Ingo Maurer, Trude Petri, Dieter Rams, Hans (Nick) Roericht, Richard Sapper, Claudia Skoda, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Hedwig Bollhagen, Hans Brockhage, Friedrich Bundtzen, Karl Clauss Dietel, Ilse Decho, Wolfgang Dyroff, Franz Ehrlich, Rudolf Horn, Rudi Högner, Margarete Jahny, Martin Kelm, Albert Krause, Hans Merz, Horst Michel, Renate Müller, Christa Petroff-Bohne, Lothar Reher, Lutz Rudolph, Selman Selmanagić, Klaus Wittkugel"--Page 2 of cover.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, March 15 - September 5, 2021; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, October 15, 2021 - February 20, 2022.

ISBN:

9783945852446

3945852447

OCLC:

1242933084